Press releases in 2009

Amnesty International today revealed that up to 1,000 people in Gambia have been kidnapped from their villages by ‘witch doctors’, taken to secret detention centres and forced to drink hallucinogenic...

Still Human Still Here: The underground world of destitute asylum seekers Host Gallery 17 March – 4 April 2009 The shocking, hidden lives of asylum seekers, whose bids for sanctuary have been rejected...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mary Robinson and Justice Richard Goldstone among signatories “shocked to core” by recent events A 16-strong group of the world’s most experienced investigators and judges...

Amnesty International expressed disappointment at the decision in Dubai today to reject the appeal of Marnie Pearce, a British woman jailed for adultery. Ms Pearce will now serve out the remainder of...

Amnesty expressed disappointment at the decision in Dubai today (16 March) to reject the appeal of Marnie Pearce, a British woman jailed for adultery. Ms Pearce will now serve out the remainder of her...

Authorities to execute in batches of 20 from next week Amnesty International has learnt that the Iraqi judicial authorities have confirmed death sentences against 128 prisoners putting them at...

Responding to the BBC interview today with former Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed, Amnesty International UK Campaigns Director Tim Hancock said: “Binyam Mohamed’s interview only adds to the...

Freedom of expression in Afghanistan faces increasing threats from the government as well as anti-government forces, Amnesty International warned today. “The Afghan government should show that it can...

Human rights activists in the Middle East and North Africa operate in “an environment of fear”, facing imprisonment, torture, persecution and repression for trying to uphold the rights of others...

Amnesty International has called on the Kenyan government to investigate immediately the execution-style killings of two human rights activists which occurred on 5 March 2009. The two men were shot...